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A frustrated tired mom holding a tiny white newborn long sleeve t shirt over her coffee cup

The Great Onesie Lie and Why Newborn Long Sleeve T Shirts Win

I'm standing in the nursery, it's like 3:14 AM, I'm wearing a nursing bra that smells vaguely of sour milk and Dave's oversized college sweatpants, and I'm practically in tears over three tiny metal crotch snaps. Before you've a baby,...

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The 3 AM Panic That Forced Us Into the Sleeping Bag Baby Phase

It was 2:14 AM and my oldest son, Beauβ€”who's now four and continues to be my living, breathing cautionary tale for literally everythingβ€”was screaming. Not his usual "I lost my pacifier" sleep-grunt. The kind of panicked scream that makes your...

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Tired mom folding a stack of soft organic cotton baby rompers on a messy bed.

What I Wish I Knew About Knit Rompers Before Baby Number Three

Dear Jess from six months ago. You're currently standing in the middle of Target, eight months pregnant with your third baby, holding a mustard yellow acrylic one-piece and crying into your iced coffee. Your ankles are swollen to the size...

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Why japan kidswear completely ruined me for normal baby clothes

When I was pregnant with Leo, I made the mistake of crowdsourcing clothing advice. My mother-in-law cornered me in a Target aisle to aggressively whisper that I should exclusively buy 12-month sizes for my unborn infant and just roll the...

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A folded vintage baby dress sitting on top of a modern organic cotton bodysuit

The Reality of Putting Your Baby in Old Hand-Me-Downs

My mother handed me a cardboard box that smelled distinctly of mothballs and aggressive potpourri right after my twenty-week ultrasound. We were sitting at her kitchen table in the suburbs. She pushed the box across the laminate counter with the...

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Sarah sitting on the floor holding a messy ball of yarn next to a half-finished baby sweater

That Time Stricken fΓΌr Babys Made Me Cry Into My Cold Coffee

I was sitting on the floor of our living room in late November, wearing a pair of maternity leggings that had definitively given up on life around the thighs, surrounded by three balls of what the label aggressively called "ethereal...

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Premature baby wearing organic size 44 wrap bodysuit in NICU

Why Preemie Size 44 Clothes Actually Matter for NICU Graduates

My mother-in-law told me to just roll up the sleeves on standard newborn clothes to save money. A mom in my peanut app group proudly shared that she bought doll outfits from a local toy store. The exhausted resident on...

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A tiny wrap bodysuit in premature size 44 lying next to tangled hospital monitor wires

Premature babies and the sheer panic of size 44 clothing

There's a very specific, cold dread that washes over you when you attempt to put a standard newborn baby-grow onto a two-kilogram human. I was standing next to Twin A’s clear plastic hospital cot, entirely sleep-deprived and sweating through a...

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A messy pile of ribbed organic baumwoll leggings next to a half-folded laundry basket

The Ugly Truth About My Switch to Bio Baumwoll Leggings

I was standing in my laundry room at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night, aggressively peeling a pair of toddler pants out of the dryer lint trap, when it actually hit me. The pants were crackling. Literally throwing off visible...

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